Confronting Christianity

Ethical principles are no more divine whims than the laws of gravity. With a theistic worldview, morality and reality spring from the same source.

commitment, not unlimited choice, breeds happiness.

Why would we seek to build global morality on atheism, when it represents a relatively small proportion of the world’s population, concentrated primarily in people living under Communist regimes?

all our relationships hinge, to some extent, on hiding.

we cannot assume that everyone who identifies as a Christian authentically is one—particularly in societies where claiming to follow Jesus is not a ticket to martyrdom but a path to power.

Christianity is the most ethnically, culturally, socioeconomically, and racially diverse belief system in all of history.

failing to recognize the figurative features with the biblical text is like taking a love poem to the grocery store and wondering why you can’t find all the items on its shelves.

If Paul’s instructions on marriage are shocking to our modern ears, they would have shocked his first hearers for precisely opposite reasons:

most of the world’s Christians are neither white nor Western, and Christianity is getting less white Western by the day.